During his presentation at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California, Zelda series director Eiji Aonuma highlighted the past successes of Nintendo's second flagship series behind Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda and gave a glimpse to the future. While Aonuma did not go into details, a slide mentioning "The Wind Waker 2 - 200X" concluded his presentation.

Furthermore, the director of The Wind Waker, echoing previous remarks, commented that a sequel to the celshaded title was indeed in development for GameCube and Nintendo was thinking about bringing new installments of the series to its new Nintendo DS handheld system in the future. Look forward to new information on the new Zelda title during May's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).